I'm not sure if the results are surprising or not (does anybody have the last 2006 poll?), but there were a few shocks for me:

- Only my #1 made the top 25 ... (Brand Upon the Brain), and only 3-4 films from my top 10 made the top 50
- And on that note, Rescue Dawn outside the top 50?!
- There is actually a film I have not seen in the top 10, Little Children
- The cult favorite Southland Tales, which used to divide FG on the middle, is nowhere to be seen

On a similar note I am very surprised I Don't Want to Sleep Alone made the top 25, and I feel guilty not watching it in time, as I could possibly have helped push it higher up.

Other unseen films in the top 30:

Old Joy
Black Book
Efter brylluppet
Red Road

My top 10 films to see from 2006 (personal watchlist):

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Science of Sleep
Fireworks Wednesday
Direktøren for det hele
I Served the King of England
Longing
Black Book
Ostrov
Coeurs
Climates

I was going to vote in this but then I realised most of my highest rated films I haven’t even seen since 2006, and I was 15 and newly into film and don’t know if I’d feel the same way about any of them as I don’t really remember them. Didn’t really feel comfortable voting for those films but it seems like all they did pretty well anyway. Really need to watch a bunch of other stuff from those earlier years, guess I can use this as a watchlist!

"I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want." - Stanley Kubrick

Yeah, 2018 seems a little too early, running the 1932 poll first and having the 2018 poll closer to the awards season would make more sense imo.

Also, there's usually a long delay between the results thread and the submission thread for the next poll, why not create one straight after the results been unveiled?

I'd say it's usually a week, sometimes two (I purposely left it 2 weeks this time because I knew the 2018 poll couldn't/shouldn't start until mid-Jan, and there would have been a really long gap). The idea is pretty much one poll per month, which does make sense and there are already several polls open here at any one time.

Rufus is planning to let the 2018 poll run until Oscar night, it will be open longer than usual. Running the 1932 poll first could be an alternative 'time killer', I agree.

Thanks flaiky! Not at all surprised to see Lynch top things here, I'm sure he wouldn't have on the CFB, even top 5 I think might've been unlikely. As to Little Children, it did get pretty great reviews here in the USA and was I think generally pretty well-loved. It's on my list pretty high but it is one of those that I wonder about, whether it will hold up. I didn't get to much new stuff for this one and have a dozen in the top half unseen, a pretty poor percentage for me. Someday....

I'm supposed to do 1932 but with family coming there's no way I would even think about starting it until at least the end of the first week of January. So I dunno, wasn't really planning on running that before the 2018 poll. I'd be willing to entertain more discussion I suppose in a week or so though.

As to Little Children, it did get pretty great reviews here in the USA and was I think generally pretty well-loved. It's on my list pretty high but it is one of those that I wonder about, whether it will hold up.

For what it's worth, I am up to three viewings for Little Children so far and it has only climbed in my esteem upon repeat viewings. I was actually underwhelmed by it when I saw it theatrically; coming on the heels on the amazing In the Bedroom, I was disappointed by how relatively little the film explored JEH's sex offender character. Upon revision though, this is very deliberate; the film is about how all the other characters use him as as a scapegoat of sorts, projecting all their fears and anxieties on what is only ever a potential threat that he poses. And the title actually, I believe, refers to all the adults who behave like little children in the film.

I'm supposed to do 1932 but with family coming there's no way I would even think about starting it until at least the end of the first week of January. So I dunno, wasn't really planning on running that before the 2018 poll. I'd be willing to entertain more discussion I suppose in a week or so though.

Personally, I'd prefer to have the 1932 poll put off until after the 2018 poll.